#fiction

He threw his burning cigarette onto our clean living room floor and ground it into the wood with his boot. We were about to become cigarettes. ↗

— Ruta Sepetys

#world-war- #historical

It touched me to be trusted with something terrible. ↗

— Elizabeth Kostova

#dark #dracula #european #fiction #historian

She [Susanna] realized she was still hugging the wall. Pride propelled her two steps forward. As she advanced, something bleated at her, as though chastising her for trespassing. She stopped midstep and peered at it. "Did you know there's a lamb in here?" "Never mind it. That's dinner." She gave it a smile and a friendly pat. "Hullo, Dinner. Aren't you a sweet thing." "It's not his name, it's his...function. ↗

— Tessa Dare

#historical

Yet, the quest for knowledge will overcome us and we must know. And, at last, we must see where the road ends, even if it be the cliff. ↗

— Nancy B. Brewer

#historical-fiction-mystery #historical-mystery #historical-romance #romance-novels #historical

Individual science fiction stories may seem as trivial as ever to the blinder critics and philosophers of today, but the core of science fiction -- its essence -- has become crucial to our salvation, if we are to be saved at all. ↗

— Isaac Asimov

#science-fiction #science

I have saved no one but myself and now I watch for the other universe to unravel in my skull, for the sky to become my own skin and fill with stars. ↗

— Will Christopher Baer

#surreal #surreal

The digital sunset always looks better than the real thing, always. Because a sunset generated by the basic package of yellow sun and blue sky is unreliable. Today it may be stunning, hypnotic. Tomorrow it may be lifeless and dull, a white sky scorched with yellow. Tomorrow the sky will be velvet. ↗

— Will Christopher Baer

#noir-fiction #surreal #surreal

Tatiana: "Why did we spend two days fighting when we could have been doing this?" Alexander: "That wasn't fighting, Tatiana. That was foreplay. ↗

— Paullina Simons

#sweet-talk #fiction

Stories are the wildest things of all. Stories chase and bite and hunt. ↗

— Patrick Ness

#stories #fiction

Maybe weakness is a strength of a kind. ↗

— Melissa de la Cruz

#blue-bloods #fiction #martin-kingsley #van-alen-legacy #young-adult